Loom
Textile
| Object Number: | 42-35-248A |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Pokomam |
| Provenience: | Guatemala San Antonio Aguas Calientes Department of Sacatepequez |
| Culture Area: | Central American |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Wood Bamboo Cotton Silk |
| Technique: | Woven Embroidered |
| Length: | 103 cm |
| Width: | 82 cm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
| Other Number: | 169 - Other Number |
Description
1 cloth bar; 1 warp bar; 3 shed sticks [1 for wrapping finished cloth]; 1 heddle; 1bamboo gauge bar; 1 bobbin; 1 spindle [with whorl] used as bobbin; 1 sword. Cloth cotton, dark blue with woven parallel meander in white at each end; compound stripes of medium blue, green, lavender, yellow, red. Small embroidered animals and flowers in yellow, green, lavender, red cotton and 1 rose silk animal. Almost finished.
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